Punishment - format ePub

Appartenant à des générations distinctes, mais ayant tous deux une formation de juriste, Alexander Kluge et Ferdinand von Schirach devisent en toute amitié de l'état des choses, et convoquent l'héritage...

Sebastian von Eschburg, scion of a wealthy, self-destructive family, survived his disastrous childhood to become a celebrated if controversial artist. He casts a provocative shadow over the Berlin scene;...

'Cool, meticulously crafted and mordantly amusing' Irish Times 'A chilling insight into a flawed justice system' Daily Mail A young lawyer puts aside her sense of justice to succeed at her new firm....

'Mesmerising and utterly absorbing' New York Times'A magnificent storyteller' Der Spiegel A retired small-town doctor takes a garden axe to his cruel wife.A woman laces her brother's food with barbiturates.Two...

'Devastating and fascinating' New York Times'Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose' ObserverA group of respectable family men are charged with the brutal murder of a teenager. A promising student gets caught...

This devastating dossier of savage stories takes us to the crimes that never reach the newspapers: small-town atrocities where the mundane lurches into the macabre and ordinary people find themselves...

Meet Fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs out. Or Patrick, so entranced by the sight of his sleeping girlfriend that he cuts a...

'Marvellously unpredictable . . . by the end of the book you wish it was twice as long' (Daily Telegraph)How does the legacy of a family past shape who we are?Ferdinand von Schirach is one of Germany's...

Meet Fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs out. Meet Patrick, so entranced by the sight of his sleeping girlfriend that he cuts...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREFEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME & THRILLER NOVELS SINCE 1945 A murder. A murderer. No motive.Fabrizio Collini is a hard working, quiet and respectable man. Until the...

L'audience à laquelle vous allez assister est un peu particulière. En effet, le public est juré dans ce procès et, ainsi, appelé à juger de la culpabilité de l'accusé. Lars Koch, major de l'Armée de l'air...

Crimes est un recueil de nouvelles relatant onze affaires criminelles stupéfiantes. Pour son auteur, Ferdinand von Schirach, avocat de la défense à Berlin depuis une quinzaine d’années, le monstrueux...

Karim appartient à une famille de truands à la petite semaine. Secrètement surdoué, il a dissimulé ses aptitudes pour vivre dans son milieu – où il passe même pour un demeuré ! Il s’apprête à témoigner...

L’énigmatique photographe Sebastian von Eschburg a certes signé des aveux complets, mais aucun corps n’a été retrouvé, ni même l'identité de la victime établie avec certitude. Son avocat met donc tout...

Quinze nouvelles, autant de crimes et de procès. La justice confrontée à des vies qui basculent dans la violence ou dans la passion destructrice constitue le fil rouge de Coupables, deuxième recueil de...

Hans Meyer, une personnalité respectée de la haute société allemande, est sauvagement assassiné dans sa chambre d'hôtel à Berlin. Le jeune Caspar Leinen est commis d'office pour assurer la défense de...

Une jurée d'assises qui influence malgré elle l'issue d'un procès, un groupe d'enfants qui s'acharne sur un vieil homme isolé, un homme dont la poupée gonflable est attaquée, une jeune avocate qui doit...

Véritable mosaïque littéraire composée de quarante-huit fragments, Café et cigarettes propose des réflexions sur le monde qui nous entoure et sur notre façon de l’habiter. Au fil des rencontres, de Munich...

Réunis sur une scène, un professeur de droit, un médecin et un évêque se succèdent pour traiter le problème suivant : un homme de soixante-dix-huit ans en parfaite santé a-t-il le droit d’être aidé à...

Appartenant à des générations distinctes, mais ayant tous deux une formation de juriste, Alexander Kluge et Ferdinand von Schirach devisent en toute amitié de l'état des choses, et convoquent l'héritage...

A haunted investigator. A trail of bodies. And a countdown no one else can hear.When a young man falls from the roof of a downtown office building, a strange smell clings to his body and a witness reports...

From USA Today Bestselling Author KL Donn comes the Blue Collar Daddies series, where the men are older, the women younger, and everyone gets their very own Daddy. Fake.It's just a name.It's what she's...

DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK.OKAY, BE AFRAID AND GRAB A DARK BREW…This short story collection has horror to chill you to the bone and humor to tickle your funny bone."Michael McCarty is given full rein,...

I have my first-ever crush…on my boss. ​​​​​​​Sienna:I've spent my entire life thinking that there's something wrong with me because I was never like the other girls my age.I never had crushes or dated...

Geoff King was excited to be coming home from prison soon, until his long-time girlfriend dropped a bombshell. This VERY SHORT STORY was first published in Words Worth Reading Issue 2.

Calling All Angels...Short Story to Angels Among Us Series…It's inferred that once an Angel touches you, you must be forever changed in some way.Faith is one such lady, as she runs an errand hours before...

Can a young woman exercise her inner demon, escaping her dangerous alter ego, in time to save Sam and Lillie, two of the most important people in her life?Angie sleeps on into the night as her alter ego,...

The tie-in book to "17 Tales of Tragedy and Triumph," exploring femininity. From a college bookstore to an AI girlfriend, from Old West Montana to summer camp with a supernatural twist. We travel from...

All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume – plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years. ‘My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the...

Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest…...

The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body - set in Castle Rock and originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into...

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This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents of the complete works of Oscar Wilde, containing more than 150 works. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie...

San Francisco, 1969The city pulses with revolution, resistance, and the roar of spray cans in midnight alleys. Rafael "Rafe" Vega, a gifted but haunted graffiti artist, lives on the edge of obscurity...

A short Short Story collection by JT Arant.The LONG of it examines the lives of three very different members of society, separated by economics and priorities, and how their actions impact each other.The...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

Can the perfect village save the perfect wedding? INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM A POSTCARD FROM ITALY Cher, the landlady of the Duck & Puddle...

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign...

How far would you go to help an enemy?Anna and Lev are enjoying a rustic fall hike when a rainstorm forces them into proximity with a testy teenager. When River's disdain for technology in general and...

Holiday chaos is universal. So is falling head over tentacles.When a case of mistaken mistletoe etiquette leads to a very public, very unexpected kiss, there are three things Xyl keeps reminding herself.One:...

9 Short Stories:Tonight is Christmas, This is What You Get, Stumbrick Witches, Night Mirror, Alone on Saturday Night, The Cabin, BLUE, Burn Yourself at the Stake, Wolf & Sheep: Vendetta1 Micro Novel:...

What if the story was reading you?Mara Penn never meant to bring the book home. One brush of the cover, and it was already too late. Bound in blood-red leather and etched with a shifting sigil, the ancient...

Beyond the realm of rock and roll, George Harrison and John Lennon seek a deeper understanding of existence. Their path, paved by the unexpected sounds of a Mexican Beatles cover band, leads them to María...

"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is a haunting exploration of the human psyche. Set against the backdrop of 1950s America, the novel follows Esther Greenwood, a talented and ambitious young woman, as she...

Three irresistible short stories by the global phenomenon Ali Hazelwood, now available together in paperback for the first time, with an exclusive bonus chapter.Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first,...

Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three...

A dark and disturbing ebook original from the master of the crime genre.A famous writer asks a boxman to open an old safe that comes with the mansion he's just bought. It's not as easy a job as he's used...

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In a world ravaged by war and environmental collapse, humanity clings to survival amidst the ruins of a fallen civilization. When a brutal marauder army threatens the fragile peace, two unlikely heroes,...

From the Book of Atmospheres by Robert Scotellaro is a collection of micro and flash stories that explore life at a slant.  Often surreal/fabulistic, there is a universality that threads their fabric...